Abstract

Objective: To identify the frequency of backache patients at Al-Nafees Medical College and Hospital, Islamabad with respect to age and gender.

Study Design: A Retrospective Observational study.

Place and Duration: Department of surgery at Al-Nafees Medical College and Hospital, Isra University Islamabad Campus from 1^st January 2014 to 31^st December 2014.

Methodology: Retrospective analysis of all the backache patients that visited surgery OPD in 2014 was done for which the data was collected from the written records of surgery out-patient department of Al-Nafees Medical College and Hospital. For evaluation, SPSS v23 was used to know the ratio among backache and non-backache patients; Gender and patients from different age groups. Then we also compared our data with various previously done literature.

Results: In 2014, total number of patients that visited Surgery OPD of Al-Nafees Medical College and Hospital, Islamabad were 4575 in which 89% were non-Backache Patients while 11% were backache patients. In that 485 patients 78% were females while 22% were males. The age group in which most of the patients presented with backache is 31-40 years i.e. 31%. Our results also shows that backache is more common in working age group i.e. from 21-50 years 76.3% which is more than 3/4^th of backache patients.

Conclusion: Prevalence of backache in increasing over passing decades and now has become global burden and now it should be controlled. Backache is the most common condition especially among working population and females as it has high impact on one’s daily life and disability.

Keywords: Backache; Prevalence; Out-Patient Department

References

1. Meucci RD., et al. “Prevalence of chronic low back pain: systematic review”. Revista De Saude Publica (2015): 49.
2. Hoy D., et al. “The global burden of low back pain: estimates from the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study”. Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases (2014).
3. Rubin DI. “Epidemiology and risk factors for spine pain”. Neurologic Clinics2 (2007): 353-371.
4. Ricci JA., et al. “Back pain exacerbations and lost productive time costs in United States workers”. Spine 26 (2003): 3052-3060.
5. Liao ZT., et al. “An epidemiological survey of low back pain and axial spondyloarthritis in a Chinese Han population”. Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology6 (2009): 455-459.
6. Melloh M., et al. “Differences across health care systems in outcome and cost-utility of surgical and conservative treatment of chronic low back pain: a study protocol”. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders1 (2008): 81.
7. Thelin A., et al. “Functioning in neck and low back pain from a 12-year perspective: a prospective population-based study”. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine7 (2008): 555-561.
8. Esteban-Vasallo MD., et al. “Prevalencia de enfermedades crónicas diagnosticadas en población inmigrante y autóctona”. Gaceta Sanitaria6 (2009): 548-552.
9. Martin BI., et al. “Expenditures and health status among adults with back and neck problems”. JAMA6 (2008): 656-664.
10. Freburger JK., et al. “The rising prevalence of chronic low back pain”. Archives of Internal Medicine3 (2009): 251-258.
11. Schmidt CO., et al. “Back pain in the German adult population: prevalence, severity, and sociodemographic correlates in a multiregional survey”. Spine18 (2007): 2005-2011.
12. Becker A., et al. “Low back pain in primary care: costs of care and prediction of future health care utilization”. Spine18 (2010): 1714-1720.
13. Kordi R and Rostami M. “Low back pain in children and adolescents: an algorithmic clinical approach”. Iranian Journal of Pediatrics3 (2011): 259.
14. Harkness EF., et al. “Is musculoskeletal pain more common now than 40 years ago?: Two population-based cross-sectional studies”. Rheumatology7 (2005): 890-895.
15. Deyo RA., et al. “Back pain prevalence and visit rates: estimates from US national surveys, 2002”. Spine23 (2006): 2724-2727.
16. Hüppe A., et al. “Is the occurrence of back pain in Germany decreasing? Two regional postal surveys a decade apart”. The European Journal of Public Health3 (2006): 318-322.
17. Fujii T and Matsudaira K. “Prevalence of low back pain and factors associated with chronic disabling back pain in Japan”. European Spine Journal2 (2013): 432-438.
18. Weiner DK., et al. “Low back pain in older adults: are we utilizing healthcare resources wisely?”. Pain Medicine2 (2006): 143-150.
19. Friedly J., et al. “Increases in lumbosacral injections in the Medicare population: 1994 to 2001”. Spine 16 (2007): 1754-1760.
20. Deyo RA and Mirza SK. “Trends and variations in the use of spine surgery”. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research 443 (2006): 139-146.
21. Gray DT., et al. “Population-based trends in volumes and rates of ambulatory lumbar spine surgery”. Spine17 (2006): 1957-1963.
22. Luo X., et al. “Patterns and trends in opioid use among individuals with back pain in the United States”. Spine8 (2004): 884-890.
23. Von Korff M., et al. “Frequency and priority of pain patients' health care use”. The Clinical Journal of Pain5 (2007): 400-408.
24. Williams JS., et al. “Risk factors and disability associated with low back pain in older adults in low-and middle-income countries. Results from the WHO study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE)”. PLoS One6 (2015): e0127880.
25. Walker BF., et al. “Low back pain in Australian adults. Prevalence and associated disability”. Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics4 (2004): 238-244.
26. Calvo-Muñoz I., et al. “Prevalence of low back pain in children and adolescents: a meta-analysis”. BMC Pediatrics1 (2013): 14.
27. Maximova TM., et al. “Health and medical care problems of people 60 years and over”. European Congress Advances in Gerontology3 (2007): 273.
28. Hoy D., et al. “A systematic review of the global prevalence of low back pain”. Arthritis and Rheumatology6 (2012): 2028-2037.
29. Manchikanti L., et al. “Epidemiology of low back pain in adults”. Neuromodulation: Technology at the Neural Interface 17 (2014): 3-10.
30. Meucci RD., et al. “Increase of chronic low back pain prevalence in a medium-sized city of southern Brazil”. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders1 (2013): 155.

Citation

Citation: Daniyal Ahmed., et al. Prevalence of Backache Patients Presented to Surgery OPD at Al-Nafees Medical College and Hospital". Acta Scientific Clinical Case Reports 1.10 (2020): 03-07.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2020 Daniyal Ahmed., et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.